Have you already re-upped your Prozac prescription? Are you knee deep in a dark room with a reading lamp and all those comics you bought on the con floor? Are you using your Tardis themed beanie to dry your silent tears? Well, you just might have the Comic Con Blues, let’s take a look.
10 Signs You Have The Post Comic Con Blues
1. You’re wearing free swag around your office
Sure, you thought everyone wearing that huge backpack with a cape attached to it was lame or sitting on that Grimm cardboard stool/chair looked pretty dumb (not to mention totally impractical during the Con), but now you find yourself putting on your Arrow themed cape and taking a real quick bathroom selfie in your Hello Kitty cardboard ears and sending it to your roomies.
2. You say “Real Quick” ANYTHING and no one laughs
Our favorite saying was “real quick” ANYTHING. Real quick trip to Mac, real quick Hall H line wait. Whatever! So of course it became our hashtag and our excuse to take more selfies. The evidence:
Real Quick Red Carpet Selfie, Real Quick selfie with JD Pardo on the side of a bus, Real quick bathroom selfie, Real quick elevator selfie, Real quick cab ride selfie, Real quick selfie with Theo James… they’re all there… and so much more.
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3. Normal People Don’t Walk Around In Costumes
You saw someone in costume on the street and got really excited thinking it was a Steam Punk Wonder Woman. When you tried to take a real quick selfie with them, turns out they were just a drag queen late for their gig.
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4. Nothing Is Free Anymore
What do you mean food truck outside your of your office isn’t free? So I have to pay for drinks at bars now?
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5. Richard Madden Is Not Your Boyfriend
You go to a baseball stadium in your home town and Nerd HQ isn’t located there. Richard Madden isn’t waiting for you inside and Nathan Fillian is most definitely NOT skipping across home plate in the background.
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6. You’re sleeping in a real bed
Sleeping on the sidewalk in front of your local convention center just isn’t the same. BUT you did get a free Subway sandwich out of it and a cup full of people’s spare change.
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7. You’re standing in line with the rest of the plebs
If you go to a club and mention your blog/podcast/Twitter handle/show/comic it does NOT let you skip the line.
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8. You’ve Spent the 24 Hours SINCE Comic Con on your computer
You’ve spent all day combing the #SDCC hashtag on Twitter and Instagram to see if you can find other #realquickselfies or pics of that cute nerd you met at the bar in hopes of following them on all your social media profiles.
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9. All The Dudes Around You Are Bros
The lobby bar scene at your local Holiday Inn in NO way resembles Barcon (that’s a thing!) and the guy who asks for your number there is probably a bus driver and not an undercover illustrator or famous sculptor.
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10. *NOTHING*
There is no ten because you’re exhausted and possibly still hung over from that Thursday night party and you’re staring at this post in hopes that your boss thinks it’s a spreadsheet. It’s not.
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If you answered yes to any of these questions, we’re here for you and we totally understand. Oh, and here’s some Advil.
